Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c8.14

c8.14

The Mohenjo-daro and Harappā excavations continued, with interruptions, for several seasons — at the Sind site from 1922 to 1931, and on the more northern site in the Punjab from 1920 to 1921 and again from 1933 to 1934. Concurrently with this large-scale excavation work, that great explorer of Western Asia, the late Sir Aurel Stein, undertook to survey the little-known areas of Baluchistan on the extreme western edge of British India and to search for prehistoric sites: his two journeys, in North Baluchistan in 1926-27 and in South Baluchistan in 1927-28, brought to light a vast amount of material of first-rate importance for linking the prehistory of north-western India with the other areas of ancient civilization in Iran and Mesopotamia.